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In Eternity’s Sunrise, Leo Damrosch’s prose flows, filled with imaginative lucidity.
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Lyle C. May reminds us that large numbers of men sentenced to death have been exonerated, and that at every level the apparatus of the carceral state is erratic at best and dramatically biased against minorities and the poor.
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Davis solos less on Merci Miles than I wish he had, but he plays with precision, taste, and expression.
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Saxophonist Harold Land has been a major contributor to the rich tapestry of jazz. Check him out.
Read MoreThe prose of Patrick Modiano, this year’s Nobel prizewinner, has a distinctive French style whose directness and grammatical limpidity by no means exclude semantic depth and complexity.
Read MoreAnyone who has sat through a commercial for one pill or another will recognize and acknowledge the satiric thrust of this enjoyable 1920’s French farce.
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Luchino Visconti made theatrically tinged movies driven by music, indebted to painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature—he accomplished, dare I say, a fusion of the arts.
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Children’s Book Review: “Discovering” Thanksgiving
Many Thanksgiving myths are dispelled, but the effort to reverse decades of misinformation leads to oversimplification at times.
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